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Harnessing the privatisation of China's fragmented health-care delivery by Yip, Winnie, Prof, Hsiao, William, Prof

“…Summary Although China's 2009 health-care reform has made impressive progress in expansion of insurance coverage, much work remains to improve its wasteful…”
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OntoTrek: 3D visualization of application ontology class hierarchies by Dooley, Damion, Nguyen, Matthew H, Hsiao, William W L

“…An application ontology often reuses terms from other related, compatible ontologies. The extent of this interconnectedness is not readily apparent when…”
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Comments on Abdo Yazbeck et al. paper: Contributory health insurance by Hsiao, William C.

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Early appraisal of China's huge and complex health-care reforms by Yip, Winnie Chi-Man, Dr Prof, Hsiao, William C, Prof, Chen, Wen, Prof, Hu, Shanlian, Prof, Ma, Jin, Prof, Maynard, Alan, Prof

“…Summary China's 3 year, CN¥850 billion (US$125 billion) reform plan, launched in 2009, marked the first phase towards achieving comprehensive universal health…”
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Financing and provision of healthcare for two billion people in low-income nations: Is the cooperative healthcare model a solution? by Hsiao, William C., Yip, Winnie

“…The international consensus in support of universal health coverage (UHC), though commendable, thus far lacks a clear mechanism to finance and deliver…”
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Detecting genomic islands using bioinformatics approaches by Brinkman, Fiona S. L, Langille, Morgan G. I, Hsiao, William W. L

“…Key Points Genomic islands (GIs) are large genomic regions (typically 10–200 kb in length) that are found in bacterial genomes and that have probably been…”
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CARD 2020: antibiotic resistome surveillance with the comprehensive antibiotic resistance database by Alcock, Brian P, Raphenya, Amogelang R, Lau, Tammy T Y, Tsang, Kara K, Bouchard, Mégane, Edalatmand, Arman, Huynh, William, Nguyen, Anna-Lisa V, Cheng, Annie A, Liu, Sihan, Min, Sally Y, Miroshnichenko, Anatoly, Tran, Hiu-Ki, Werfalli, Rafik E, Nasir, Jalees A, Oloni, Martins, Speicher, David J, Florescu, Alexandra, Singh, Bhavya, Faltyn, Mateusz, Hernandez-Koutoucheva, Anastasia, Sharma, Arjun N, Bordeleau, Emily, Pawlowski, Andrew C, Zubyk, Haley L, Dooley, Damion, Griffiths, Emma, Maguire, Finlay, Winsor, Geoff L, Beiko, Robert G, Brinkman, Fiona S L, Hsiao, William W L, Domselaar, Gary V, McArthur, Andrew G

“…Abstract The Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database (CARD; https://card.mcmaster.ca) is a curated resource providing reference DNA and protein sequences,…”
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Taiwan’s path to universal health coverage—an essay by William C Hsiao by Hsiao, William C

“…Who could pass up a chance to redesign a society’s healthcare system, no matter how challenging it may be? William C Hsiao describes how he responded…”
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Infection control in the new age of genomic epidemiology by Tang, Patrick, MD, PhD, Croxen, Matthew A., PhD, Hasan, Mohammad R., PhD, Hsiao, William W.L., PhD, Hoang, Linda M., MD

“…Highlights • Advances in genome sequencing have allowed for its use in infection control. • Genome sequencing provides higher resolution than conventional…”
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Evaluation of genomic island predictors using a comparative genomics approach by Langille, Morgan G I, Hsiao, William W L, Brinkman, Fiona S L

“…Genomic islands (GIs) are clusters of genes in prokaryotic genomes of probable horizontal origin. GIs are disproportionately associated with microbial…”
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The Chinese Health System At A Crossroads by Yip, Winnie, Hsiao, William C

“…The Chinese government has committed to increasing government funding for health care by directing 1-1.5 percent of its gross domestic product to universal…”
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The association of virulence factors with genomic islands by Ho Sui, Shannan J, Fedynak, Amber, Hsiao, William W L, Langille, Morgan G I, Brinkman, Fiona S L

“…It has been noted that many bacterial virulence factor genes are located within genomic islands (GIs; clusters of genes in a prokaryotic genome of probable…”
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CARD 2023: expanded curation, support for machine learning, and resistome prediction at the Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database by Alcock, Brian P, Huynh, William, Chalil, Romeo, Smith, Keaton W, Raphenya, Amogelang R, Wlodarski, Mateusz A, Edalatmand, Arman, Petkau, Aaron, Syed, Sohaib A, Tsang, Kara K, Baker, Sheridan J C, Dave, Mugdha, McCarthy, Madeline C, Mukiri, Karyn M, Nasir, Jalees A, Golbon, Bahar, Imtiaz, Hamna, Jiang, Xingjian, Kaur, Komal, Kwong, Megan, Liang, Zi Cheng, Niu, Keyu C, Shan, Prabakar, Yang, Jasmine Y J, Gray, Kristen L, Hoad, Gemma R, Jia, Baofeng, Bhando, Timsy, Carfrae, Lindsey A, Farha, Maya A, French, Shawn, Gordzevich, Rodion, Rachwalski, Kenneth, Tu, Megan M, Bordeleau, Emily, Dooley, Damion, Griffiths, Emma, Zubyk, Haley L, Brown, Eric D, Maguire, Finlay, Beiko, Robert G, Hsiao, William W L, Brinkman, Fiona S L, Van Domselaar, Gary, McArthur, Andrew G

“…The Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database (CARD; card.mcmaster.ca) combines the Antibiotic Resistance Ontology (ARO) with curated AMR gene (ARG)…”
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Microbial transformation from normal oral microbiota to acute endodontic infections by Hsiao, William Wl, Li, Kevin L, Liu, Zhenqiu, Jones, Cheron, Fraser-Liggett, Claire M, Fouad, Ashraf F

“…Endodontic infections are a leading cause of oro-facial pain and tooth loss in western countries, and may lead to severe life-threatening infections. These…”
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Non-evidence-based policy: How effective is China's new cooperative medical scheme in reducing medical impoverishment? by Yip, Winnie, Hsiao, William C.

“…In recent years, many lower to middle income countries have looked to insurance as a means to protect their populations from medical impoverishment. In 2003,…”
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Authors’ reply to comments: “Financing and provision of healthcare for two billion people in low-income nations: Is the cooperative healthcare model a solution?” by Hsiao, William C., Yip, Winnie CM

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China's health care reform: A tentative assessment by Yip, Winnie, Hsiao, William

“…China has recently unveiled an ambitious new health-care reform plan, entailing a doubling of government health spending as well as a number of concrete…”
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Realignment of incentives for health-care providers in China by Yip, Winnie Chi-Man, Dr, Hsiao, William, Prof, Meng, Qingyue, Prof, Chen, Wen, Prof, Sun, Xiaoming, PhD

“…Summary Inappropriate incentives as part of China's fee-for-service payment system have resulted in rapid cost increase, inefficiencies, poor quality,…”
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FoodOn: a harmonized food ontology to increase global food traceability, quality control and data integration by Dooley, Damion M., Griffiths, Emma J., Gosal, Gurinder S., Buttigieg, Pier L., Hoehndorf, Robert, Lange, Matthew C., Schriml, Lynn M., Brinkman, Fiona S. L., Hsiao, William W. L.

“…The construction of high capacity data sharing networks to support increasing government and commercial data exchange has highlighted a key roadblock: the…”
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Uncovering effects of antibiotics on the host and microbiota using transkingdom gene networks by Morgun, Andrey, Dzutsev, Amiran, Dong, Xiaoxi, Greer, Renee L, Sexton, D Joseph, Ravel, Jacques, Schuster, Martin, Hsiao, William, Matzinger, Polly, Shulzhenko, Natalia

“…Despite widespread use of antibiotics for the treatment of life-threatening infections and for research on the role of commensal microbiota, our understanding…”
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